Thanksgiving Day was cloudy and cool but dry. The day after Thanksgiving was gorgeous. Blue, bright, warm, for late November!
Sunrise.
I decided to take myself to the University's Botanical Garden's conservatory.
It is a lovely place. Such a rich variety of plants!!!
The Garden staff is encouraging people to look for patterns in a plant's shapes. You can see a poster with a closeup of a pineapple (with actual pineapple plants, bottom right).
The sidewalk above runs through the middle of the tropical room, to the temperate room, where it continues down the middle of that space.
Turning not quite 180 from the previous, we see a bunch of orchids.
Wow, eh?
The conservatory has a lot of bromeliads.
Closer crop of the above. Love the spikes along the leaf margins.
Those braided-looking things are cool enough, but look, then flowers come out of the sides!
A bit of mise-en-scene -- the braided things, sort of in the middle, and some bromeliads at the bottom.
A mounted-on-bark bromeliad.
Alas, I was not in label-reading (or recording mode) for most of my visit. I have no idea what this was. The plant was 2-3' high, and most of the flowers faced downward.
Anthurium.
Overlap, made more striking by the strong sunlight.
Cocoa pods.
And a much riper one on the same plant.
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2 comments:
Heaven... you were in heaven... :) :) :)
Yes, wow on the orchids! Isn't the botanical gardens the best place to go when it's cold outside?! :)
I'm sure you were like a kid in a candy shop. :)
It was lovely.
I totally need to remember that when I'm bored with what there is to see in my daily life, I need to go somewhere I don't go daily......
When I've got new things to see, my Eye wakes up.......
:-) :-) :-)
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